This week the youth were exposed to lots of important farming knowledge. Our lesson topics included Agroecology and organic certification, crop rotations, pollinators, and their importance to growing food. They also learned about Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which means they are ready to take care of plants in a healthy and responsible way, getting to […]
July has been a great month at the Richmond High garden ! We ended our summer course with the students and for the last week they painted some raised beds, cooked a meal with produce from the garden & made herbal salves with beeswax straight from the Richmond bees The flowers have been blooming and […]
This week was very exciting for us at the North Richmond Farm. With fun mason jar soil experiments, the Summer Apprentices learned about soil, its mineral components, and its structure. They had lessons on soil microorganisms and plant nutrients and through experiential learning activities, they learned how to make hot compost and vermicompost. Finally, the […]
Lots of love and care to our North Richmond Farm fruit trees volunteers today at our 4th Saturday helped harvest lots of apricots and give our older trees some nutrients. They also weeded all throughout the orchard and planted some beautiful new native plants like Elderberry and Coastal Sage! We hope to see you there […]
North Richmond farm Summer Apprentice Program update Week 2 Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty: We had an amazing week with the farm youth apprentices. We learned about environmental justice and food sovereignty. The youth got to prepare a smoothie with kale and other healthy ingredients. We also did an experiment to learn the amount of […]
We are on our final week of the summer course! Students have been learning a lot!! How to grow food, collecting seeds, herbal medicine, flower anatomy, pollinators, how to reduce waste, and most importantly COOKING & NOURISHMENT We are so proud of how hard these youth have worked and how much they have been growing […]
Update from North Richmond Farms Summer Apprentice Crew. We just started Week One! We covered some important topics like site and tool safety, mindfulness, and North Richmond site history. Not only have we been learning but also getting tasks completed like harvesting our apricots, adding coffee grounds donated by Catahoula coffee to help our Berries […]
This past week at the Urban Agriculture Summer School Course at Richmond High School has been full of harvesting, seed saving, pesto making, and tomato trellising! We are teaching students about the health benefits of powerful herbs like chamomile, and lemon verbena and how plant allies from the “Farmacy” can be homegrown solutions used to […]
Week 2 of the summer school is underway and our students are getting a full serving of knowledge and healthy, delicious summertime abundance! In the classroom, students are learning about Soil Composition and its relationship to Soil Fertility. Outside in the garden students are learning about no-till farming, transplanting, and harvesting! Stay tuned for more […]
